Antidepressants for mothers: What are we prescribing?

Scottish Medical Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 94-97

  Kean, Laura Jane ^a   Hamilton, Jane ^b   Shah, Premal ^c  

^a Lower Central North Island Psychiatric Training Scheme ^*  (New Zealand)

^b ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL EDINBURGH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antidepressants; Breastfeeding; Depression; Perinatal; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CITALOPRAM; CLOMIPRAMINE; DOXEPIN; FLUOXETINE; IMIPRAMINE; LOFEPRAMINE; MIRTAZAPINE; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR; PAROXETINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; TRAZODONE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VENLAFAXINE;

ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONSULTATION; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; MATERNAL CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRESCRIPTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BREAST FEEDING; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MOTHERS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; SCOTLAND;

EID: 79959334219     PISSN: 00369330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/smj.2011.011034     Document Type: Article

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